[Patentcenter] LMAO! - November 15th

Wed Nov 8 11:57:37 UTC 2023

Kappos was Director from before 2011 until January 21, 2013. Lee was Director from January 13, 2014 until June 7, 2017. Iancu was Director from February 8, 2018 until January 19, 2021. I left out the interim Directors in that period and up to when Vidal became Director in 2022 -- Stanek, Matal, and Hirshfeld.

Seems like the can was kicked down the road under several Directors

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If you want to read more about the USPTO's software development practices, check out these reports from the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Commerce:

  1.  USPTO Should Improve Acquisition Planning and Vendor Performance Management to Prevent Schedule Delays and Unnecessary Costs Related to the SDI_NG Contract (link<https://www.oig.doc.gov/OIGPublications/OIG-21-010-A.pdf>).
  2.  USPTO Needs to Improve Its Cost Estimating, Scheduling, and Agile Practices to Timely Retire Patent Legacy Systems (link<https://www.oig.doc.gov/OIGPublications/OIG-22-026-A.pdf>).

The first link explains how the USPTO started a 5 year contract in 2011 referred to as Software Development and Integration—Next Generation (SDI-NG) and how it was mismanaged and extended through noncompetitive bridge contracts to 2020. The second link describes mismanagement of contracts (I believe they are the same as those described in the first link) from 2011 through 2021.

It is window into the incompetence of the USPTO's software contracting practices.

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I've seen several of these big software projects.  They almost always result in delays when they get into beta testing because there are a lot of things that the software designers don't know about and therefore can't program for.

What this really means is that the software contractor probably won't get its max bonus for meeting the deadline. (I'm assuming USPTO doesn't have the IT staff to develop PATENTCENTER internally).   I suspect the next deadline is also tied to a reduced bonus.  Who knows, maybe even USPTO management/project management has some bonus money at stake. That's generally the reason that project leadership adheres rigidly to due dates, live dates, and retirement dates even though they know the replacement system is FUBAR.

So since max bonuses won't be paid, maybe they can spend some of the money they saved by doing a little maintenance on PAIR and other systems.

Friday is a federal holiday and the start of a three day weekend.  How much work will get done over that three day weekend?

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 3:49 PM Randall Svihla via Patentcenter <patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com<mailto:patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com>> wrote:

What a joke.

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From the blog:

“We’re not stopping here. Since its launch six years ago, we’ve rigorously tested Patent Center and made improvements based on your feedback. We will continue to use your input to enhance the system’s functionality. If you have a suggestion or an idea for new functionality or performance improvement send them to emod at uspto.gov<http://emod@uspto.gov/>. We review these ideas weekly.

Retiring our legacy EFS-Web and Private PAIR systems ensures that we are better protecting confidential application materials and investing patent user fees responsibly. Maintaining these legacy systems during the development and testing of Patent Center made sense to ensure there was no interruption in service. Patent Center is now ready to become the sole system, and it is time to turn off the legacy systems so we can reinvest recovered resources into developing your ideas for new functionality and performance improvements.”

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Aha aha hee ah hee ha.

Like in SIX business days, the USPTO is going to actually fix all the problems with PatentCenter (of course, without breaking other things… as is the usual SOP)…

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